UCLA animal researchers step up efforts against protesters

I believe there are scientists who are reasonable, civilized, and who peacefully advocate for the right to harm and kill animals. Unfortunately, many other scientists are actively engaged in this sort of violence against nonhuman animals and people like David Jentsch actively encourage the perpetuation of this violence.

It is difficult to have a dialogue, when one party to the debate is routinely inflicting grave injury and death on innocent and vulnerable individuals.

And I believe that there are physicians who are reasonable, civilized, and who peacefully advocate for the right to kill unborn infants. Unfortunately many other physicians are actively engaged against this form of violence.

It is difficult to have a dialogue when one party to the debates is routinely inflicting death against innocent and vulnerable individuals. Therefore means of action other than peaceful debate may be necessary to terminate said action.

While UCLA placed the Los Angeles Times ad, the billboards are part of a national public education campaign managed by the Foundation for Biomedical Research. See: http://www.fbresearch.org/Portals/9/ResearchSavesPR.pdf

Will, can you please tell me what David Jentsch does?

Mr Jerry Vlasak is a terrorist. Plain and simple. I disagree with many peoples' opinions, but that doesn't give me the right to murder them, their kids, their parents, the rest of their family, or blow up their cars, houses, or other property. But Mr Vlasak thinks it is perfectly alright to murder someone or bomb their house because they don't agree with his radical beliefs. I mean, seriously, he is a nut. Oh, and he's as much of a surgeon as I'm the Pope. Basically he's a lying terrorist... he reminds me of Osama Bin Laden.

Sue- David Jentsch researches psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and addiction. The type of work he does can lead to major advances in our ability to understand and treat these diseases. Anyone who has had a friend or family member suffering from a major mental disorder knows how devastating it is for patients and their families, and how important it is to work to get new and more effective treatments.

I think Jerry Vlasak is working for the vivisectors,etc. He knows an "activist" who is clearly an informent or agent and protects him. Also, as long as the vivisection empire treats animal rights activists as terrorists against scientists, we will never win-right Jerry. That's why UCLA has not debated vivisection in 20 years. They know we must win by exposing thier fraud to human beings.

Scientists at UCLA, including those that comprise Pro-test for Science, have no intention of referring to all animal rights activists as terrorists. Though the extremists who have targeted us are animal rights activists, not all activists are extremists. I want to be quite clear about that.

Having said that, Jerry Vlasak and a select group of his closest comrades are thugs whose joy in life is derived from threatening and terrorizing others. We will never debate a thug; to do so belittles the importance of the issue itself.

Thank you, Cheri. You have correctly characterized my research and my motivations for undertaking it.

I offered to drop a lawsuit (trial was in 2006) against UCLA after I was unreasonably injured at a demonstration. UCLA refused. My offer for a debate was with Dr Ray Greek who is not a thug nor an agent. Thank-you for your reply, David Jentsch!

Well done to Prof. Jentsch and colleagues for taking this stand against AR extremism. As a supporter of muscular dystrophy research (a friend suffers from DMD) I am keenly aware of the enormous contribution made by scientists who work with animals to medical progress.

It would be great to see more patient advocacy groups and research charities get behind Pro-Test for Science.

Threats, intimidation, harassment and arson have no place in democratic dialog, as Chris implied above what the AR extremists are doing is morally no different to the many attacks that anti-abortion extremists have made on abortion providers. What AR activists like Jerry Vlasak and Rick Bogle are advocating is a campaign similar to that that resulted in the murder of George Tiller a few months ago. This cannot be tolerated!

In a paper from 2008, Jentsch explains:

"Young adult male or female St Kitts green (vervet) monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) at the St Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation (St Kitts, West Indies) were used. As the subjects were feral monkeys, their exact age was not known. These studies were approved by the relevant institutional animal care and use committee. Monkeys, housed individually in squeeze-cages, were injected with PCP twice daily for 14 days, as described before (Jentsch et al, 1997).… John D Elsworth, J David Jentsch, Bret A Morrow, D Eugene Redmond Jr and Robert H Roth. Clozapine Normalizes Prefrontal Cortex Dopamine Transmission in Monkeys Subchronically Exposed to Phencyclidine Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008.

Then he killed them and examined their brains.